Supplier of Wooden Kit Boats,CNC design,epoxies,bronze nails,Beech,Ash,Teak,marine and exterior grade plywood,bending plywoods and Flexible veneer sheets.
Agents for these and many other companies:
North Sails,Harken,Lewmar,Ronstan,Raymarine,Yanmar,International Paints.
See also our blog on cars,its another side of what we can do,try this link http://royckdboats.blogspot.com/

Plywood okoume marine is ex stock and we can cut to your order in a short time.

Prices on materials are based on the 2013 last import price, the Rand has fallen in value, so new stocks will cost more to those buying in Rands, those buying in U$ or other offshore currencies will find the cost of a kit to be low, about U$1194 at todays costings.

Auckland, New ZealandVesper Marine, a leading manufacturer of innovative marine safety products, announced today that its Virtual AIS Beacon for Aids to Navigation has been selected by the America’s Cup Event Authority to provide critical safety information at the Louis Vuitton challenger series and the 34th AC Finals held this September on San Francisco Bay. A truly innovative technology, the Vesper Marine Virtual AIS Beacon will be used to establish a Virtual Aid to Navigation perimeter that clearly outlines the racecourse the for AC event. Broadcast using the international standardized marine Automatic Identification System (AIS), changes to the course can be made in real time ensuring the ultimate in safety for spectators and other local San Francisco marine traffic.

Complementing a private system already used by AC organizers to manage the race and notify race boats of approaching boundaries, Vesper Marine’s technology has been implanted to address safety concerns for on-the-water spectators and general marine traffic that uses the busy waterway. Authorized race officials will collect real time information from race marshals, calculate condition-dependent course boundaries and, using Vesper Marine’s application programming interface (API), send information to the beacon automatically. The beacon will establish a virtual fence around the course and broadcast this information to the public using AIS frequencies, essentially painting the course on surrounding vessels’ dedicated AIS displays and navigation systems to clearly outline boundaries and other critical safety information. As a result, spectator and official vessels can quickly and easily see their own positions relative to the course boundaries on their navigation displays to ensure they are safely outside the course at all times.

“Vesper Marine's Virtual AIS Beacon proved its worth during the 2012 America’s Cup World Series races on San Francisco Bay allowing America’s Cup Race Management to communicate the location of the race boundaries,” said Stan Honey, director of technology for the 34th America’s Cup and one of the inventors of televised football’s ‘first-down’ technology. “We used it to broadcast the location of the boundaries around the racecourse to the spectator fleet, similar to the way we use graphic overlays to show the same boundary locations to those enjoying the race on TV. We are confident that Vesper’s technology will continue to greatly improve operations and communications for everyone during the main event!”

Friday, 24 January 2014

The founding of the very first Wooden and Classic Yacht Regatta and the TBA Easter Classic Boat Regatta was just one week apart, the RCYC was first and next was the TBA, we joined forces the next year and it stayed as a very good relationship for the next twenty years, what happened, you tell me!

Click on the page, dated March 1994 so nearly two decades ago. Signed by the late Capt, Peter Moon.

The two Commodores, RCYC Commodore Dale Cushner welcomes the TBA, while past TBA Commodore smiles and toasts with a glass of wine. Dale told me later he was very surprised that the Traditional Boat Asscociation was closing its doors, I told him So am I!

We even had the last TBA meeting ever to be held at the RCYC last year, the place was a full house affair. The RCYC commodore told me he and his committee will back a revival of the TBA if we can find the persons to drive it, any takers out there?

My thanks to our wonderful RCYC hosts for many years and this last evening when they laid on a spread of snacks we can only dream of.

Thursday, 23 January 2014

I needed a quote for a British car part being manufactured, the drawing I have is marked as
using 16swg steel plate.

SWG

n

1.(Metallurgy) Standard Wire Gauge; a notation for the diameters of metal rods or thickness of metal sheet ranging from 16 mm to 0.02 mm or from 0.5 inch to 0.001 inch

In real terms, well in Metric this is around 1.6mm thick.

The Sunbeam Imp Sport oil cooler mounts are the parts being remade.

My digital micrometer gave me a reading around 1.68mm thick, the paint makes for the extra thickness?

Always learning?

Roy

Standard wire gauge

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A standard wire gauge.

British Standard Wire Gaugeis a set of wire sizes given byBS3737:1964 (now withdrawn), and is generally abbreviated to SWG. It is also known as:Imperial Wire GaugeorBritish Standard Gauge. Use of SWG sizes has fallen greatly in popularity, but is still used as a measure of thickness in guitar strings and some electrical wire. Cross sectional area in square millimetres is now a more popular size measurement. The current British Standard for metallic materials such as wire and sheet is BS 6722:1986, which is a solely metric standard.

The basis of the system is themil, or0.001in. No. 7/0, the largest size, is0.50 in. (500 mils or12.7 mm) in diameter, and the smallest, No. 50, is0.001 in. (1 milor about25 µm) in diameter. Between each gauge, the weight diminishes by approximately 20%. Because the weight per unit length is related to the area, and therefore the square of the diameter, the diameter diminishes by approximately 10.6%:

A table of wire gauges and diameters is shown below.[1][2]The relationship of diameter to gauge is piecewise linear, only approximating a (constant-ratio) exponential curve.

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

At the 2013 Mirror Worlds held on Lough Derg, N. Ireland, South African's Ryan & Michaela Robinson where crowned World Champions!

Lough Derg Yacht Club in Dromineer, North Tipperary, hosted the 2013 Mirror World Sailing Championship, the first world sailing championship to be held on the inland waters of Ireland.

I note that the South African world champions won in the plywood / epoxy version of the Mirror Dinghy class, well done to both of you!

Note, both the Ply/Epoxy and the GRP boats need to have a minimum weight of 45.5 kgs, so there is no difference between either. Corrector weights to 3.0kg are allowed, once placed and fixed at the thwart, they are marked and become part of the boats measurement certificate.

Unknown to myself, I was informed only yesterday that when we start CNC cutting our Mirror Dinghy kits we will become the fist such company or person to such a thing.

The Mirror dinghy, the little plywood wonder that brought sailing to the masses, is still loved today by some of our best-known sailors.

Olympic medallist Stuart Bithell learned to sail in a Mirror. Round-the-world yachtswomen Ellen MacArthur and Dee Caffari are big fans too. And this year the Mirror dinghy, the little plywood wonder that brought sailing to the masses and launched the careers of some of our top sailors, is 50 years old. Last summer Stuart, now 25, claimed Olympic silver in the 470 class.

“Caprice” – 39 foot Gaff Cutter

“Windward” – 42 foot Gaff Cutter designed by N D Ross,

built by Louw and Halvorsen in Cape Town

Thanks on the picture, its really a fine shot and one I have not
yet seen?

The boat center to the picture may be St George, the Maritime
Museum had her as a static display some years back, I supplied the materials
for her reconstruction.

The larger yacht to the right will be Halloween, she was
restored by the Stremple brothers about 15 years back, I supplied all the wood
and ply. They then sailed her to Brasil, then onto Spain where she was
sold.

I may find the yacht on the left in my book on the history of
the RCYC, I will have a look and let you know if I find it?

Any more such pictures?

Regards

Roy

I took this picture, also in Table Bay but many years later and an Easter TBA meeting, circa 1998 or thereabout?

Note that Haloween has been converted to a more traditional gaff rig, Ren Penso was not happy when she heard the new that Karl Stremple was going this route but by then Haloween was a near wreck and any care was to be credited. In the end the boat was more or less rebuilt and to a very high standard. This included new decks, masts and spars, all birdsmouth constructed, I supplied the Oregon pine to that work, the teak to the decks also.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

For some while now and very much behind the scenes we have been discussing the possibility of CKD Boats cc of Hout Bay near Cape Town, South Africa becoming the official ISAF recognised Mirror Dinghy kit suppliers to South Africa and other countries.

Todays inter class dinghy show was held at the Zeekoevlei Yacht Club, well attended many got to meet the class leaders and in some cases the boat builders also.

Click on the picture for a larger image.

We will soon start the construction of our hull # 1, this needs to be measured for proof that we have CNC cut the boats shape correctly, when this is proven we will be offering the Mirror Dinghy in a number of options.

A well campaigned wood epoxy Mirror Dinghy transom.

CKD Boats cc will offer the wood epoxy boat as a number of options.

A base kit with the CNC cut okoume marine ply to BS 1088, wood, epoxy and glass tapes only, the kit pre assembled but not finished , or the boat finished to the stage you require.

We missed this event in 2013 as the costs were said to be too large and the Cape Town Western Province Motor Club declined to have the cars that year, now they are back for 2014.

Entry was R80 per person in 2012, expect similar or a little more but the value is worth every cent.

See you there, best to be early so you can really see the cars close up and meet the drivers. Take sunscreen and a hat to cover your head and neck, the sun can really get you over the period of an entire day.

Roys Hillman Imp Years

Started some years back,the first blog was intended to carry the CNC ply and epoxy boat kits only.Then other items slipped in,it soon became a potted history of Roys past life,some of it anyway.

There have been many car projects in the past and maybe in the future. So recently a brand new blog was started to open a few doors to Roys history with the cars he has known.

We can now accept Pay-Pal

There has been Pay-Pal transactions for some while now,you may find your own purchase is made more easy and safer for you using this method.

CKD Boats web site access

Welcome to CKD Boats,a supplier of CNC cut boat kits and related materials,find us at http://www.ckdboats.com/ We are based in Cape Town,South Africa and export world wide.Our phone and fax line number is 021 790-3859,we are two hours in front of GMT/UTC

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This may have been a Continent at one time,thanks to Justin for the picture,which is signed in the lower right hand corner but I can not make out who the artist is."John Pettifor"?

Superform bending ply applications

We originally thought the boat trade would be our main target area but we now find the use has spread across the board and many shop and office fitters use it,its used on a large scale by furniture manufacturers too,

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Roy Mc Bride

working class trades person,broom sweeper and potato picker,apprentice Joiner,master carpenter,emigrant,shopfitter,interior designer,disco dj,race car builder and driver,engine rebuild specialist,boat designer and builder,traveled to twenty nine countries,married to a surfing families daughter,two great children, three grand children,two boys and one girl,Ben,Luke and Holly,sailed the South Atlantic three times,twice on my own yachts,founded a timber retail store,importer and exporter,cnc cut boat and car kit maker,working with the Hillman Imp and derivitives for 47 years,more or less in that order.yes,still crazy after all these years!